Rest Day...of course not

I talked with Jerry yesterday after the men v. women workout and figured today would be a good rest day so I could hit the benchmark WOD on Friday. My shoulder was sore from the burpees and Jerry said we were going to be doing handstand pushups. I even thought about maybe running in the morning before work. Well the alarm went off at 5:10am as usual and I began to rationalize why I needed to make it to CFOT. I mean I am going to Charlotte tomorrow night and won't be able to do any WODs Saturday or Sunday, I shouldn't run because I am planning on doing that in Charlotte. I jumped in the Jeep and was excited about the WOD. I was a little pumped up driving to CFOT because we lost the men v. women challenge last night by .6 pts and I knew the women would be gloating a bit. I was ready to kill a good MetCon WOD.

I got in the blueroom and looked at the white board and saw the following
5-10 Hand Stand Pushups
5-10 Knees to Elbows or other variations*
5-10 High Box Jumps
10 round ~ 45 minutes

I asked Jerry if this was for time because it wasn't too strict with reps. He said it wasn't planned to be but he would time anyone that wanted to do it for time. I thought about and then realized I could make this a "fun" crossfit day and try to push myself by making these exercises harder. I am confident in my hand stand pushups and knocked out 10 reps right away, then I started to think I may need to break out the parallettes. I moved over to the rings and played around by working up to a vertical position after the knee to elbow and then worked on a front lever. A front lever is when you can keep your body straight and just about hold your body parallel to the floor. This is tough! I moved over to box jumps and did 4 mats and planned on moving up to 5 mats the next round.

Today was fun, I challenged myself and yet took the time to work with others. Jerry saw me with the parallettes and asked me if I could go head to the deck and that was a true parallette hand stand push up. I had been going deeper than a handstand pushup without the parallettes but was timid and never tried head to the deck. I got over it and tried and knocked out 3 consecutive ones, wow that was tough! I continued working on my front lever and getting more confident on the rings and feel like I really progressed. Box jumps I kind of cleared 5 mats, and definitely was not going to be trying 6 mats. I mean "white men can't jump."

I was challenged today in a different way than i expected but in a good way. It is good to have days like today. Now to get pumped for tomorrows benchmark. The plan is to go for a light run tonight and get my 39 burpees done and get some good sleep to wake up and kill it in the am.